Expansion of health insurance coverage does not equal access, according to Froedtert Health president and chief executive officer Cathy Jacobson.
In Milwaukee County, close to 50,000 new childless adults now have access to coverage under Wisconsin’s brand of Medicaid expansion.
Not all of those people, however, understand how to access the health care system, she said, and they end up accessing it the way they have always known: the emergency room, resulting in vast increases of area emergency room utilizations.
Read more in Tuesday’s Milwaukee Biz Blog by Hilary Dickinson, reporter at BizTimes Milwaukee.
